Schools
85 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 12 secondary schools. St Margaret's School is the nearest published school at 86 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD23 1DS
Bushey Park · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bushey Park
- Local authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- WD23
- Postcode sector
- WD23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD23 1DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD23
- Postcode sector
- WD23 1
- Latitude
- 51.637826
- Longitude
- -0.362805
- British National Grid easting
- 513,394
- British National Grid northing
- 194,493
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Bushey Park · E05012186
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119652
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 012A · E01023558
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 012 · E02004907
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WD23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 85
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 12
- 86 m
St Margaret's School
Other independent school
- 429 m
Ashfield Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 510 m
Merry Hill Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,120
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 444
- Anti social behaviour 187
- Vehicle crime 90
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Other theft 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD23 1 residents
- 6,625
Age bands in WD23 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
1,125 residents
614 residents
1,467 residents
1,734 residents
1,836 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
17
within 5 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
1.2 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
1.2 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
1.4 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
2.3 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
2.3 km
ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CTR.
165-167 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4EA
ODS code E84061
3.3 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
3.4 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
3.6 km
HATCH END MEDICAL CENTRE
577 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4RD
ODS code E84053
3.6 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
3.9 km
ASPRI MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LONG ELMES, HARROW WEALD, HARROW, HA3 5LE
ODS code E84658
4.0 km
ENDERLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
ENDERLEY ROAD MEDICAL CTR, 41-45 ENDERLEY ROAD, HARROW, HA3 5HF
ODS code E84009
4.3 km
HEADSTONE LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
238 HEADSTONE LANE, NORTH HARROW, HARROW, HA2 6LY
ODS code E84676
4.3 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
4.4 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
4.4 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
4.5 km
THE PINN MEDICAL CENTRE
37 LOVE LANE, PINNER, HA5 3EE
ODS code E84024
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Steeplands
BCT · Bushey
- 0.3 miles
Steeplands
BCT · Bushey
- 0.3 miles
Police Station Lane
BCT · Bushey
- 0.3 miles
Melbourne Road
BCT · Bushey
- 0.4 miles
Police Station Lane
BCT · Bushey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 012A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,120 published events cover 12 months, averaging 93.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 444 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.